How to make an Ethernet connection between two computers?

I have two windows XP computers and a 5-port workgroup hub, What steps do I take to make a connection. How do I find the IP address of each computer?How to make an Ethernet connection between two computers?
From your description, I assume that you have no other equipment or network connections going on here. That means there is no DHCP server (like you'd find on a router) that assigns IP addresses for you.





No problem however. Just manually assign a unique IP address to each computer. There are some rules for assigning addresses, but to keep it simple for you just use any unique value in the following range:





192.168.0.xxx (where xxx is a number from 1 to 254).


Subnet mask is then 255.255.255.0


Gateway/Router is blank (or 0.0.0.0)


DNS is also blank (or 0.0.0.0)





Under XP, you can change the address by opening ';Network Connections'; in the control panel. Pull up properties on the ';Local Area Connection';; find ';Internet Protocol'; in the list and hit properties.





If you ever want to do it automatically, just add a router or internet gateway with DHCP turned on and set each PC to get their addresses automatically.


How to make an Ethernet connection between two computers?
Open a command prompt.





Type in ';ipconfig /all'; and that will show you the IP address of the box.





They need to be on the same IP network, of course.
just plug each one into the hub. go to control panel/network connections and make sure you have a different ip address for each computer